Latin-American Collaboration in Nuclear Physics

Alinka Lépine-SzilyInstituto de Física-USP São Paulo, Brazil

Escola de Verao Jorge Andre Swieca de Fisica Nuclear Teorica 23-29/1/2011

Two-Day Symposium on International Nuclear Science of the IUPAP Working Group WG.9 TRIUMF on July 2-4, 2010

No Long range plan

No large scale facilities in Latin America

Only 2 accelerators dedicated to basic Nuclear Physics Research:

Pelletron tandem 20MV-Tandar in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pelletron tandem of 8MV- Sao Paulo, Brazil

Funding: Brazil: ~50 M$, 2.5M$ for Nuclear Physics,(include grants, student fellowships,does not include salaries, which are paid by Univ, Intitutes)Science without Frontiers: 200.000 undergraduate students/yearSent for 1 year abroad.

Funding: much less in other Latin American countries

CHART OF SANTIAGO

The “Association of Latin American Nuclear Physics and Applications” (ALANPA) was formed in Santiago, Chile on Dec. 19, 2009, by representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

In Spanish is called “Asociación Latino Americana de Física Nuclear y Aplicaciones” ALAFNA In Portuguese is called “Associação Latino Americana de Física Nuclear e Aplicações” ALAFNA

Chairs of ALAFNA: Andrés Kreiner (Argentina) Alinka Lépine-Szily (Brazil)

Steering Committee (SC) of ALAFNA is formed by the 15 original founders:

Ricardo Alarcon (Arizona State Univ., USA)Hugo Arellano (U. of Chile, Chile)Haydn Barros (U.Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)

Maria Ester Brandan (UNAM, Mexico) Roelof Bijker (UNAM, Mexico)Laszlo Sajo Bohus (U.Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)Fernando Cristancho (UNal, Colombia) Paulo Gomes (U. Fed. Fluminense, Brazil)Carlos Granja(Inst.Exp.Appl.Phys. Czech Tech.U. Czech

Rep.)Andrés Kreiner (Tandar, CNEA, Argentina)Alinka Lépine-Szily (USP, Brazil)Rubens Lichtenthäler (USP, Brazil)Modesto Montoya (Inst. Per. Em. Nucl., Peru)Roberto Morales (U. of Chile, Chile)Alberto Pacheco (Tandar, CNEA, Argentina)

Objectives of ALAFNA To strengthen ties among the Latin American

Communities doing nuclear research and applications to foster collaborations and promotion of activities,

To educate the scientific community and the general public through the promotion of nuclear physics and the peaceful uses of nuclear technology,

To do periodic overall assessments of nuclear science in Latin America in the context of world wide activities, and

To discuss at a multi-national level future planning of nuclear science activities in Latin America

Role of the Steering Committee:

-establishment of ALAFNA governance rules

-divulgation of ALAFNA in the scientific community

-divulgation of ALAFNA within governments of Latin America with interest in nuclear science and applications

ALAFNA homepage is installed: www.alafna.org

Latin American Symposia on Nuclear Physics and Applications 1995 Caracas, Venezuela1997 Caracas, Venezuela1999 San Andrés, Colombia2001 Ciudad de México, México2003 Santos, Brazil2005 Iguazu, Argentina2007 Cuzco, Peru2009 Santiago, Chile 2011 Quito, Ecuador2013 Montevideo, Uruguay

Scope: the dissemination of the major theoretical and experimental advances in the field of nuclear science and its applications.

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VIII LASNPA, Santiago, Chile, December 15-19, 2009http://servicios3.ing.uchile.cl/slafna/

29 Plenary talks, 97 parallel talks, 40 posters

170 participants

IX LASNPA Quito Ecuador, July 18-22, 2011, EPN

33 plenary speakers, 55 parallel talks, 33 posters126 participants

General Informations on news in Nuclear Physics in

Brazil: XVII Experimental Summer School on Nuclear PhysicsJanuary 23 - February 03, 2012, IFUSP - São Paulo, SP

25 students from all Latin America8 local Pos-docs as monitors10 local researchersReal experiment realized on RIBRAS, students do data analysis

XXXV Nuclear Physics Workshop in Brazil 2-6 september 2012, Maresias, Brazil24 plenary talks (14 international), 191 participants,Parallel session, posters

New 14C-AMS facility installed at Universidade Federal Fluminense,Niteroi, Brazil . First in South America.

Laboratory at UFFLaboratory at UFF

Projections for the the near future

• The IF-UFF is the first laboratory in Latin America self sufficient to develop projects on 14C-AMS.

• The number of Brazilian and Latin American researchers using this technique should increase by one or two orders of magnitude.

• Collaborative multi-disciplinary scientific projects + a few commercial works to support the lab.

Mexico: list of activities

1, VII Escuela Mexicana de Física Nuclear, 20-28 de junio de 2011, México DF. Contact: Libertad Barrón Palos

2. Sección de Física Nuclear del LIV Congreso Nacional de Física, 10-14 de octubre de 2011, Mérida, Yucatán. Contact:Maria Esther Ortiz Salazar

3. XXXV Simposio de Física Nuclear, 3-6 de enero de 2012, Cocoyoc, Morelos. Contact: Elizabeth Padilla Rodal

4. Estancias de Verano 2012, junio-agosto de 2012. Contacto: Jorge Hirsch

5. Congreso Internacional: Beauty in Physics: Theory and Experiment en honor de Francesco Iachello, 14-18 de mayo de 2012, Cocoyoc, Morelos. Contacto: Roelof Bijker

6. Inauguración del Laboratorio de Núcleos Exóticos del Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares de la UNAM, marzo de 2012, Mexico DF. Contacto: Elizabeth Padilla Rodal . Detector construction.

Latin American countries with activity in CERN

Argentina

Number of CERN users18 (January 2011)Participation in CERN Experiments; ATLAS

Brazil

Number of CERN users93 (January 2012)Participation in CERN Experiments: ALICE,ATLAS,CMS,LHCb,ALPHA

Mexico

Number of CERN users43 (January 2012)Participation in CERN Experiments: ALICE,CMS,Na62

Chile(4), Colombia(10), Cuba (4), Peru(2), mainly ALICE